Psychology
Whether they are researchers and/or clinicians, university-based or independent, our clients write compelling works on the human condition. Some write from personal experience, such as Martha Manning in Undercurrents Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer in Extraordinary Knowing. Some write prescriptively, such as Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein in The Power of Resilience and Richard OConnor in Undoing Depression and Undoing Perpetual Stress. Still others challenge their field to fresh thinking, as do William Doherty in Soul Searching and Marc Galanter in Spirituality and the Healthy Mind.
A Wide Range
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A Wide Range
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Richard O'Connor. Ph.D.
Undoing Depression
Little Brown/Hachette
Written by a therapist who has battled depression since he was a teenager, this popular, practical handbook is distinctively focused on maintaining a preventive outlook and breaking depressive cycles. It draws on the latest research in neuroscience and integrates the most helpful techniques of different therapeutic approaches: cognitive, behavioral, and psychodynamic. William Styron says, “Undoing Depression is distinguished by its common sense, its humanity, and its absence of dogmatism. It is a balanced and persuasive work that explores the dark predicament of depression, and the pathways toward help, with fresh insight.”
Paula Kamen
All in My Head
Da Capo
From the beginning of a headache to end all headaches, author and journalist Paula Kamen has delivered this often funny, always engaging memoir about patience, persistence, and the plight of victims of chronic pain. All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache has been praised by Dave Eggers, and the Boston Globe declared, “Kamen describes her descent into headache hell with verve and wit… for readers who have headaches and for chronic pain sufferers, this book is a must-read.”
Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons
The Invisible Gorilla
Crown/Random House
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us: The two cognitive scientist who created one of the most famous experiments in the history of psychology offer what advance reviews call a “page turner” that provides “A riveting romp across the landscape of our psychological misperceptions," “a surprising guide to our everyday illusions,” and “surprising insights into just how clueless we are about how our minds work and how we experience the world.”
Michael F. Myers, MD and Carla Fine
Touched by Suicide
Gotham/Penguin
Every year, five million Americans are affected by the tragedy of suicide, either directly or indirectly. In this definitive guide book, Michael F. Myers, MD, a leading psychiatrist, and Carla Fine, author of the acclaimed No Time to Say Goodbye, combine their perspectives as a physician and a survivor to offer compassionate and practical advice to anyone affected by suicide.
Martha Manning
Undercurrents
HarperOne/HarperCollins
In this collection of candid journal entries, readers can follow Martha Manning—psychologist, mother, wife, ordinary woman—into a downward spiral of overwhelming depression and through the controversial electro-convulsive therapy that got her back out of it. The Los Angeles Times says that Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface is “A brilliant combination of wit, irony, and despair….absolutely as good as it gets.” Anne Lamott calls it “One of my favorite books in a long time…Brilliant, painful, beautiful. I laughed out loud.”
Vivian Diller, Ph.D., and Jill Muir-Sukenick, Ph.D
Face It
Hay House
Face It: What Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change: As models turned psychotherapists, the authors bring a unique perspective to the role beauty plays in a woman’s life. Their six-step program that begins with recognizing “uh-oh” moments that reveal the reality of changing looks and ends with bidding adieu to old definitions of beauty, so women can enjoy their appearance—at any age.